This is a squadbuilding competition. The winner will be determined based on the same rules that are used in the CCC (customs) competitions. Everyone can enter and everyone can vote. But you can't win unless you vote. When you vote, vote for a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. 3pts per 1st place vote, 2pts per 2nd place vote, and 1pt per 3rd place vote. Most pts wins. Tiebreaker is 1st place votes. 2nd tiebreaker will be earliest entered.

You are building a thematic squad from the specified era. Feel free to enter a squad you've already built if it fits the criteria.

The current entry deadline and voting deadline are specified in the first post of this thread.

The rules:

* Your squad must be thematically accurate. Characters must be from the appropriate era, and it must make sense that they would work together. They do not have to have actually worked together in canon/legends, but they can't be enemies, and they can't be from different eras. If they are Unique they must be from the source material (e.g. Gha Nhackt would not be able to be in a squad from the prequel trilogy - only from the Clone Wars cartoon). Most Fringe non-Uniques can be used in most factions/eras. As long as the species/role makes sense for your squad, you're fine.

* All WotC and Vset pieces are legal. Squad size is 200pts, and squads must be legal in addition to making thematic sense.

* Being thematically accurate is mandatory, but as long as you clear the bar for that (your squad makes sense as something that happened or could have happened), the judging should be based on which squad is the strongest squad.

* Give your squad a meaningful name. If you win, the name will be entered into the tournament brackets later on. In your squad comments, explain why your squad is so great.


This will be a long series of squadbuilding competitions from all throughout the Star Wars universe. At the end, the winning squads will be entered into a single-elimination tournament to find The Best Thematic Squad Of Them All. For some of the squadbuilding competitions, the era as well as a faction or source material is specified. For others, the ones noted with just a *, only the era is specified.

Here is the schedule. We will not be going 1 through 32, though. We'll save the starred competitions until the end and start with the ones where a faction or source material is specified. With about 2 per week, it should take about 4 months to fill in the bracket:

Prequel Trilogy Era
1. Republic
2. Seps
3. *
4. *

OT Era
5. Rebel
6. Imperial
7. Fringe
8. *

Sequel Trilogy Era
9. Resistance
10. First Order
11. *
12. *

Live-Action "Era" (Mandalorian/Solo/Rogue One/etc)
13. The Mandalorian TV show
14. Solo
15. Rogue One
16. *

Early Old Republic Era (Up through KotOR2)
17. Old Republic
18. Sith
19. *
20. *

Late Old Republic Era (KotOR or later - yes there is overlap between the early and late OR eras)
21. Old Republic
22. Sith
23. *
24. *

Legends "Era" (after the original trilogy)
25. Vong
26. New Republic
27. *
28. *

Cartoon "Era" (Mainly Clone Wars & Rebels)
29. Clone Wars
30. Rebels
31. Mandalorian faction
32. *

=== BEGIN: RESISTANCE (SEQUEL TRILOGY) ===

Entry deadline: January 26
Voting deadline: January 29

http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/223154/the-search-for-skywalker

3 entries. Voting is open. Deadline to vote is tomorrow (the 29th). Everyone can vote. People entered must vote in order to win.

Last day to vote

1. Darkdracul
2. FlyingArrow

=== BEGIN: FIRST ORDER (SEQUEL TRILOGY) ===

Moving right into the next contest... First Order from the sequel trilogy.

Entry deadline: February 2
Voting deadline: February 5

http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/223247/fulfill-your-destiny


--Fulfill Your Destiny--
42 Supreme Leader Snoke
38 Supreme Leader Kylo Ren
52 First Order Flametrooper x2
44 Knight of Ren x2
10 BB-9E
8 RA–7 First Order Protocol Droid
6 First Order Stormtrooper

Sticking with my “what if” theme from the last time I entered, this is built around the idea of Kylo killing Rey for Snoke instead of turning on him.
Lots of auto damage from the flame troopers and Snoke’s lightning, and can use Force Link and Pull to set up some nasty combos. Kylo with his knights can dish out a nice deal of damage too with Snoke’s CE and having greater mobile

Today's the last day. 3 entries so far.

(I'll start the voting some time tomorrow, so you really have until the voting opens, which will probably be some time mid-day tomorrow.)

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Here's my entry:

--Faction Pure First Order--
42 Supreme Leader Snoke
27 Captain Phasma
26 First Order Flametrooper
26 Kylo Ren
23 General Hux
8 RA–7 First Order Protocol Droid
36 First Order Stormtrooper x6
12 RA-7 Death Star Protocol Droid x2

(200pts. 14 activations)
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/223273/faction-pure-first-order

My top 3: 1) FlyingArrow, 2) DarkDrakul 3) Caedus